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The Piazza San Marco seen from the Piazzetta dei Leoncini (recto); San Luigi Gonzaga (verso)
The Piazza San Marco seen from the Piazzetta dei Leoncini (recto); San Luigi Gonzaga (verso)

The Piazza San Marco seen from the Piazzetta dei Leoncini (recto); San Luigi Gonzaga (verso)

Artist Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712 - 1793)
Date18th century
MediumBrown ink with brown and gray wash over black chalk on paper (recto); red chalk accented with brown ink on paper (verso)
DimensionsOverall: 10 × 10 1/8 inches (25.4 × 25.73 cm)
Framed: 17 1/2 × 21 3/4 × 1 1/4 inches (44.45 × 55.25 × 3.18 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number70-39 A,B
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

City Views, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 31-July 10, 1983, no. 20B, as Venice, The Piazza San Marco Seen from the Piazzetta dei Leoncini (recto).

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 47, as The Piazza San Marco seen from the Piazzetta dei Leoncini (recto); San Luigi Gonzaga (verso).

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat., as The Piazza San Marco seen from the Piazzetta dei Leoncini (recto); San Luigi Gonzaga (verso).

Provenance

Irma (née Nathan, 1874-1970) Straus, New York, by 1970;

Purchased from her posthumous sale, Highly Important Old Master Drawings: Including Examples François Boucher, Jean Honore [sic] Fragonard, Francesco Guardi, etc…Collected by the Late Mrs. Irma N. Straus and Her Late Husband Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, October 21, 1970, lot 12, as The Piazza S. Marco seen from the Piazzetta dei Leoncini (recto), by Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York, 1970;

With Parke-Bernet Galleries, by 1970;

Purchased from Parke-Bernet Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1970.

Published References

Highly Important Old Master Drawings: Including Examples François Boucher, Jean Honore [sic] Fragonard, Francesco Guardi, etc…Collected by the Late Mrs. Irma N. Straus and Her Late Husband Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus (New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, October 21, 1970), 22, (repro.), as The Piazza S. Marco seen from the Piazzetta dei Leoncini (recto).

n.a., “La Chronique des Arts,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 77, no. 1225 (February 1971): 82, (repro.), as La Place Saint-Marc vue de la Piazzetta de Leoncini (recto).

Denys Sutton, “Editorial: The Colonel’s Gift,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (December 1972): 472-73, (repro.), as The Piazza S. Marco seen from the Piazzetta dei Leoncini (recto). [repr. in Denys Sutton, ed., William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City (London: Apollo Magazine, 1972), 4-5].

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 179, (repro.), as The Piazza San Marco Seen from the Piazzetta dei Leoncini (recto).

Ross E. Taggart and Roger Ward, City Views, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 11, 26, (repro.), as Venice, The Piazza San Marco Seen from the Piazzetta dei Leoncini (recto).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 189, (repro.), as The Piazza San Marco Seen from the Piazzetta dei Leoncini (recto).  

Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 154-55, (repro.), as The Piazza San Marco seen from the Piazzetta dei Leoncini (recto); San Luigi Gonzaga (verso).

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